Project Simplify, Cont.

So as I was saying...

This was my first time using a light board, so I wasn't expecting to make anything you could consider "long". I only animated half of what I'd storyboarded, in fact.

I hadn't used After Effects in almost a year, so I got some help from my teacher. (You know, I hope there are programs out there that aren't as confusing to budding animators - it would suck if not being computer-savvy was keeping people from getting their stuff out there.)

Oh, that video? It's... it's nothing important to me at all. I'm totally not saving up for a new bike for it, nope.

And now, without further ado: my very first traditionally-drawn animation!

It's funny - when I saw the finished product, I swelled up with joy. I know it's not even three seconds long, but I just wasn't expecting it to come out so smoothly.

I'm probably just being emotional. Welp, on to the next project!

Project Simplify

Long time no post! I'm pretty tired, so I'll make this one short and sweet.

Before I get to the good news, have some concept art. I'd been mulling over ideas for my first project of the year for a week, but I couldn't think of anything I could actually see myself completing. Then one day, I drew two circles and a line connecting them on a whim. A pair of rectangles for legs, and I was in love.

I was thinking of abandoning the tablet and making something the traditional way - you know, paper and a backlight. To make sure I didn't take up the whole first semester, I wanted the simplest muse possible, so this little circle-ostrich thing was a godsend.

My time's almost up. I'll post more tomorrow!